Eugene B. Shirley, Jr. Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Us

Pando is a non-profit working in the education industry, producing civic engagement programs that focus on building resilience in the California Southland. I founded Pando in 2014 with American Academy of Arts and Sciences member John B. Cobb, Jr. (my former professor, tracing back 40 years) and others interested in rethinking civilization with the Earth and each other in mind. Our flagship Pando Days program brings Southland colleges and universities together to create ingenious new initiatives to help implement the LA County sustainability plan. By the end of 2022, we expect more than three dozen Pando Days projects to have been developed, the result of full courses, studios or labs devoted to this purpose. Former Chief Sustainability Officer for LA County Gary Gero serves as the Pando Days Key Advisor. Our Magenta House Expo and Accelerator operate on a similar model but for middle school.With LA City Councilmember Paul Koretz and Caltech CSO John Onderdonk, we founded the CSO (Chief Sustainability Officer) Taskforce for LA County, bringing together CSOs from higher ed, business, and government.Pando gets its name from the one-tree forest in south-central Utah that spreads over 100 acres with more than 47,000 trunks -- yet stems from the same root. It is a profound symbol of the interconnectedness of all things.

New York, Ny, Us

I co-founded Alexandria with Chief Scientist Ruey-Lung Hsiao, PhD. The company has become the gold standard of text analytics for finance, awarded AFTA's best "AI Technology Initiative" in finance for 2021.Our original focus was in the knowledge management and information visualization space with the aim of creating an advanced learning system for educators and learners alike. But groundbreaking work in machine learning and data analytics opened up opportunities to tailor applications for institutional investors. The company has grown to become a leading provider of sentiment assessment for the financial industry, with facility in multiple languages. The company serves a global client base from offices in New York and Los Angeles. Alexandria operates in the arena of predictive analytics, helping finance professionals discover intelligence within massive amounts of unstructured content. We do it with technology that can read and understand qualitative information -- identifying facts, assessing sentiment, and delivering integrated market intelligence -- within milliseconds. Alexandria’s technology is used for alpha generation, risk assessment, trade execution, and asset allocation. Alexandria is an analytics partner with Dow Jones & Company, FactSet, Nikkei, and other leading providers. To view FactSet's video showcasing Alexandria's value, go here: https://open.factset.com/catalog/products/alexandria-contextual-text-analytics-acta/en-us

I founded PACEM when I was in college to produce a documentary film on human rights in the Soviet Union: CANDLE IN THE WIND. Narrated by John Carradine and directed by Arthur Barron, the film was the first major production in the US to focus on the history of oppression of Soviet believers. It aired over PBS and in 24 other countries, premiering at the White House for International Human Rights Day following a speech by President Reagan. I was the first US independent producer to film officially in the USSR. I also co-edited CANDLE IN THE WIND, the book, with Keston College scholar Michael Rowe. The last PACEM film was the American Masters' special, I.M. PEI: Building China Modern, filmed with Pei over 8 years in the 2,500 year-old city of Suzhou. Caroline Courtauld co-executive produced; Anne Makepeace directed; Charles Jencks played a key role. Over the years, PACEM was the producing entity for projects that I initiated and developed with colleagues, including: MESSENGERS FROM MOSCOW, a 4-part series on the Cold War (PBS and BBC) written and directed by Daniel Wolf and executive produced in collaboration with Wolf and Prof. Herbert Ellison, nominated for a British "Oscar" (BAFTA) and winning a "best documentary" British "Emmy" (Royal Television Society award); YELSTIN, a 90-min special; BEYOND WALL STREET, an 8-part series on finance with journalists Andrew Tobias and Jane Bryant Quinn and co-directed with the legendary Michael Gill; and A.K.A. CREEK: Educating a Big City Schoolboy, a public television special with former Asst. Sec. of Education Chester E. Finn, Jr. PACEM's work was supported internationally, including government and private institutions in the US (foundations, corporations, CPB, NEA, NEH, and ITVS, and others). PACEM's films have been broadcast in prime time including to some thirty countries. Collaborating partners included WNET/New York, WETA/Washington, D.C., SCETV/Columbia, SC, Barraclough Carey/London, Malone Gill/London, and more.

Washington, Dc, Us

My affiliation with Hudson traced to an interest in projects that focus on big ideas.

Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Us

My fellowship at Dickinson provided me with a platform from which to develop new ventures at the intersection of education, research, and technology.

Washington, Dc, Us

During the two years that I was a Fellow at USIP, I co-created and produced the BAFTA-nominated and Royal Television Society award-winner MESSENGERS FROM MOSCOW. Focused on the history of the Cold War, MESSENGERS was a documentary film collaboration between PACEM Productions (US) and Barraclough Carey (UK) for PBS and BBC. The four-part investigation was the subject of some 250 Op/Ed and television reviews worldwide and received numerous awards and nominations, including Chicago Film Festival; Cine Golden Eagle; Royal Television Society, BAFTA nomination and others. The series was broadcast in thirty countries. The resulting archives contain unprecedented material documenting the Cold War with eye-witness accounts from Moscow's perspective.Jack Matlock, the last U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, called MESSENGERS the most important treatment of the Cold War to date at that time, in any medium.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

In collaboration with Michael Rowe (Keston College), I co-edited CANDLE IN THE WIND: Religion in the Soviet Union, based on research for the prime-time film for PBS and international distribution that I produced on the same subject (and same title). In the book, eleven authors survey the history and then-current situation for the Russian Orthodox Church and other Christian bodies -- Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox -- as well as for Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam. A project of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, CANDLE IN THE WIND was published in collaboration with the University Press of America (1989).

The COLLEGIATE QUARTERLY was a journal I founded when I was in college and edited for a total of five years, focusing on the college and university audience affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The QUARTERLY was distinctive for the ways it approached topics on religion and ethics from multiple perspectives and points of view, and incorporated art and design. International circulation grew from 0 to 30,000 during these founding years.

Graduate Study, Philosophy Of Religion And Theology

Ba, Religion